Charles Dand
Service Reliability Engineer - Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Dand is a Service Reliability Engineer and Lead Consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience securing and scaling Linux and cloud infrastructures across APAC. He blends deep systems engineering—having overseen thousands of server deployments and major data center expansions—with advanced detection and threat-hunting expertise, authoring Linux-specific intrusion tests and custom auditd-based detection pipelines. Known for driving efficiencies through automation (Puppet, xCAT, CI/CD) and pragmatic open-source evaluations, he has repeatedly reduced costs and recouped millions in CapEx through vendor and lifecycle optimisations. At Lazada he bridged operations and security, aligning defenses to MITRE ATT&CK and rolling out honeypots, NIDS and vulnerability tooling to strengthen SOC capabilities. A British citizen and Singapore permanent resident, he pairs infrastructure delivery chops with a forensic security mindset that helps teams move from reactive firefighting to measurable, automated resilience.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bearsden AcademyBSc (honours) Physiology, BSc (honours) Physiology at University of Glasgow
Japanese, English
Github Skills (4)
mysql-db8
partitions7
zabbix3
mysql2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cdand/zabbixdbpartitioning
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:39 commits in 10 days
mysqlmodifiedpartitionscreationmysql-db
cdand/nvim
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 months
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